The problem is that it really all depends on the figures, props and athmosphere you want to achieve. Here is an iimage which I just started. It has a skydome and 1 infinite white light, RT shadows at 2.0 blur, shadows at 0.8 with IDL and GC enabled. Light is at an angle of -35 degrees. Textures all have greyscale maps at 1.0, refl multipliers disabled. Rendersettings are pretty low (1 RT bounce, 1 IDL bounce, 3 pixel samples). But the lighting is pretty much what I wanted.

Regarding 3rd party content: If the shaders have not been tested in PP2010 I rather have simple setups because then it is easier to change it. I do want seperate texture, bump, display and reflection maps - because the habit of attaching a texture map to a bumpchannel is pretty useless with CG enabled.